Community Planning

Integrating Social and Physical Environments
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4051-9887-5
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 188 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

This key planning textbook on designing healthy and sustainable communities informs planners about community life and the processes of planning and equips them with the essential knowledge and skills they need to organise change and improve the quality of urban living.

The author examines the impacts of social and economic change on community life and organization and explores ways in which these changes can be planned and managed. Community planning is presented as a means to balance and integrate beneficial change with the maintenance of valued cultural traditions and life styles. This involves bringing together fields of study and practice including urban and regional planning, design, communication, housing, community organization, employment, transport, and governance. Links drawn between personal values, human activities, physical spaces and societal governance assist this process of synthesis.

Establishing a common vocabulary to discuss planning - for urban and regional planners, including health planners; and open space planners - enables both students and practitioners to work with each other and with those for whom they provide services to create stronger, healthier and more sustainable communities.

The aims and roles of community planning are explored and the key planning operations are explained, including the phases and applications of community planning method; the planning and location of community facilities; the roles of design in shaping responsive community spaces; and the capacity of different types of community governance to improve the relations between citizens and societies.

The book is organized into two main parts: after the first three chapters have established the interests and scope of community planning, the next six each moves from an account of issues and theoretical concerns, through a review of case studies, to summaries of leading practice. This positive approach is intended to encourage readers to develop their own capacities for effective participation and action. The concluding chapter draws together the contributions of preceding ones to demonstrate the integrity of the community planning process

Supplementary website: www.wiley.com/go/heywood

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heywood, Phil

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regionalgeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Landschaftsplanung, Ländliche Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements

1 The Nature and Planning of Community Life

Part One: Social and Economic Changes

The current cascade of change

Part Two: Community Life and Change

Contemporary challenges to community life

Part Three: Competing Interpretations of Community Structure and Change

Order: genetically driven dominance
Productivity and exchange: through market competition
Control through transcendence of conflict: equality through struggle
Collaboration: through negotiation, adjustment and mutual aid

Part Four: The Roles of Cooperation

Cooperation in practice
Conclusions

2 The Spirit and Characteristics of Community Planning

Part One: Themes

Communication
Consultation
Participation and exclusion
The significance of participatory theories
Negotiation

Part Two: Applications

Necessary conditions for effective community consultation
The role and themes of consultation
Methods of consultation
Consultation techniques
Conclusion: relations of community planning with community action, community development and community organisation

3 Local Communities of Place and Contact

Social and organisational characteristics of local communities
The physical forms of communities
Spatial justice
The planning of places
Community participation and governance
Conclusion: the durability of local communities of place and contact

4 Communities of Interest and Interaction

City communities
Regional interest communities
National communities
Supranational political communities
Global communities
The many levels of community planning
Conclusion: mixed scanning for integrated community planning

5 Human Values and Community Goals

Value formation
The value of prosperity
The value of liberty
The values of social justice
Values for sustainable communities
Relations among the four community values
Conclusions: how values can combine to help solve problems and shape creative plans

6 Communities of Method

Art and creativity in planning
Science, knowledge and planning method
Planning as a craft
Political control and community participation
Conclusions: values as the basis for communities of method

7 Activities and their Analysis

The links between activity systems and values
The uses of models of activities
The role of systems theory within the planning process
Activity systems analysis in practice
Conclusions: the roles of activity systems in community planning
Appendix 1 Household demand and housing land supply statistics, Greater Brisbane 1996–2016
Appendix 2 Employment Projections: Brisbane Statistical Division
Key Assumptions

8 People, Homes and Communities

Demographic challenges in meeting global and local housing needs
Technological responses and impacts
Roads, wheels, wagons and motor vehicles
Costs, means and access to provision and finance of housing
Balancing demand and supply for shelter
Conclusions: the contributions of shelter to community life

9 Facets of Community

Justifications for community intervention
The planning and organisation of work
The place of learning in community life
The planning and delivery of health services
Conclusion: the many facets of community

10 Places, Spaces and Community Design

Places and their properties
Communal and collective spaces and places
The language of design and the vocabulary of space and place
Place-making: designing to make life
Models of urban form
Conclusion: bringing places to life

11 Community Governance and Participation

Governance, government and community participation
Issues of freedom and order
The roles of negotiation and partnership
The development and evaluation of policies and proposals
Roles and responsibilities in governance and participation
Scales of community and their roles of governance and control
Conclusions: the contributions of participation and governance to community life

12 Conclusions: Community Planning Today and Tomorrow

The elements of community planning

Themes, roles and future directions

The future of community planning

Endnotes
References
Index
A colour plate section

Über Autor(innen)

Phil Heywood is a Fellow and former President of the Queensland Division of the Planning Institute of Australia, and has worked and taught in regional and local planning in Australia, Britain, West Africa and Malaysia.

He has been head of planning schools in UK and Australia, and is currently Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.